The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming-pool shoot of husband and artist Ed Templeton, which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression and the enigma of water.

In the early 1980s, Barbara Crane embarked on a series of photographs shot during Chicago's various summer festivals.

Chieska Fortune Smith documents women during their pregnancies for Sixteen Journal Volume 7 on Womanhood.

Portraits taken the first week of March 2022 in Liverpool Street Station, London, UK.

In the Summers, I go home to the place I grew calluses on my knees from praying – I document my place as a way to see it again and re-tell it.

Photography by Ben Toms
Styling by Victoire Simonney

Jeano Edwards captures black womanhood in Jamaica for Sixteen Volume 7.

Intergenerational love, loss, trauma and joy are explored in a project mining the ambiguities of memory, through thirty years of the artist photographing her family.

Photography by Elizaveta Porodina
Styling by Victoire Simonney

How Susan Meiselas’s home neighborhood produced one of her most influential bodies of work – a study of adolescence, femininity and the gentrification of New York.

Thalia Gochez captures family moments in LA for Sixteen Journal Volume 7 on Womanhood.

Anthony Blasko shoots Seminary and Mize High School Cheering team for Sixteen Volume 7.